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-- Alien threec2006., Adult, Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment. Call No: DVD Fic Alien 3 Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ripley, the only survivor of her past mission, awakens on a prison planet in the far corners of the solar system. As she tries to recover, she realizes that not only has an alien gotten loose on the planet, the alien has implanted one of its own within her. As she battles the prison authorities (and is aided by the prisoners) in trying to kill the alien, she must also cope with a distinctly shortened lifespan that awaits her.
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[2009], p2008., Paramount Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Curious Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival. He does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by Thomas Button, his biological father, after Benjamin's biological mother dies in childbirth, Benjamin is raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors' home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when they finally match up in age. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read.
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(2002, p1999)., General, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Fight Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggression into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
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2012., Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Girl (2011) Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed, punk hacker, Lisbeth Salander.
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2002., Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Panic R Edition: Widescreen version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg and her daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
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-- 7.2004., Adult, New Line Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Seven Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A psychological thriller about two detectives on the trail of a serial killer who chooses his victims according to the seven deadly sins.
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2011., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Social Edition: Two-disc collector's ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.